England, received the honour of knighthood. He remained on that station until the peace, when he was commissioned to the Ganges guard-ship at Portsmouth. The Spanish armament found him for a third time, in 1790, flag-captain to Lord Howe; and on the promotion of the Hon. Leveson Gower to a flag, he was appointed captain of the Fleet. In the Russian armament, in the following year, he commanded the Brunswick, of 74 guns. At the opening of the French Revolution, he was singled out to be the captain of the Fleet for the Channel service, and was spoken of in the highest terms by Lord Howe, in his official dispatches, "for his able counsel and conduct in every branch of the service;" and for which, on his Majesty's visit to Portsmouth after the glorious victory of the 1st of June, he was created a baronet, and promoted to his flag. Since then he served in the Channel, and commanded at the Cape of Good Hope and Portsmouth; and in the latter command evinced the most determined ardour for the service, by the zeal and regularity with which he forwarded troops and necessaries to the Peninsula of Spain, and regulated the immensely rich fleets of the trade of this Country, which were compelled to assemble at Spithead for protection. Not the least, however, of Sir Roger Curtis's services is, the being selected to preside at the Board for the revision of all the rules and regulations of every department of the Navy. P. 555. b. The following Inscription is placed on the Monument erected to the memory of the late Rev. Dr. Vincent, in Westminster Abbey: Hic requiescit quod mortale est GULIELMI VINCENT; qui puer sub domûs hujusce penetralibus enutritus ; mox post studia Academica confecta unde obiit reversus, atque ex uno Præceptorum gradu summum adeptus, Decanatu tandem hujusce Ecclesiæ (quam unico delixit) decoratus est. Qualis fuerit vitá, studiis moribus Lapis sepulchralis taceat. Ortus ex honesta stirpe Vincentiorum de Shepy, in agro Leicestriensi, natus Londini Novembris secundo 1739, denatus Decembris 21mo 1815. P. 567. Adm. Boyles was a native of Wells, in Norfolk, and eldest son of Chas. Boyles, esq. many years Collector of the Customs at that port. He commenced his naval career with the late Lord Nelson, in the Raisonable, when commanded by his Lordship's uncle, Capt. Suckling. This officer commanded the Windsor Castle man of war in the action off Ferrol, be tween the English fleet, under Sir Robert Calder, and the combined fleets of France and Spain. During this engagement it fell to the lot of but few ships to be advan tageously opposed to the Enemy, but the return to Plymouth of the crippled Windsor Castle, with two Spanish seventy-fours, was a triumph exaltingly spoken of by the immortal Nelson, as being principally the achievement of a Norfolk man. Adm. Boyles was some years since Colonel of the Marines. P. 569. Mr. Royston was one of the projectors and founders of a Society, instituted in 1811, for the promotion of medical inquiry, from which the organization and the statutes of the Medical Institution have emanated. His industry and intelligence were for a long time devoted to a very extensive work intitled "Bibliographia Medicinæ Britannica," which is left unfinished. As the conductor of the London Medical and Physical Journal, as a Member of the Linnean Society, and of other scientific bodies, he was honoured and esteemed. He was engaged, nearly to the period of his death, in researches concerning Electricity; and his observations, it is said, are shortly to be published. P. 571. b. Dec. 1, died of an apoplectic fit at Colchester, Thomas Baskerfeild, esq. He was descended from a very antient family of great respectability in Bedfordshire, and other counties. His father was an oilman, the corner of Hatton-Garden in Holborn, where he long lived, universally respected and esteemed, and at length, being in independent circumstances, and having no other child, he retired from business. The son, of whom we are now speaking, was educated at the Charter House, and, having an independent fortune, never engaged in business. His attention to his father and mother so long as either of them lived, was of the most exemplary nature; nothing was allowed to interfere with it. His disposition was cheerful, social, kind, and liberal, manifested on all occasions to those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance: nothing was wanting that he thought could entertain or give pleasure to them. He was a sincere and devout member of the Church of England, without 'ostentation, sourness, or bigotry. About two years before his death he left London to reside at Colchester, to the great loss of those who had been accustomed to enjoy his society. P. 572. Richard fourth Earl ofEffingham was descended from the Earl of Effingham, admiral of the Fleet in the reign of Q. Elizabeth, and a younger son of the second Howard, Duke of Norfolk. It is said that the earldom is now extinct, but that the barony of Howard descends to Gen. Kenneth Howard, who, it will be recollected, had a considerable legacy, under the will of the late Duke of Norfolk. Thomas the third Earl having been absent from town soon after the riots in 1780, it was absurdly reported, at the time, that he had been shot in the disguise of a chim ney-sweeper. The mother of this nobleman, as well as her second husband the late Sir George Howard, enjoyed her Majesty's favour, about whose person the former held an official situation; and her son, Earl Thomas, was in 1784 appointed Secretary and Comptroller of her Majesty's household, which he held till his death. in 1794. 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To Mr. Gox, of the East India House, for the Cape of Good Hope, and all parts of India. " METEO. INDEX TO ESSAYS, DISSERTATIONS, and HISTORICAL PASSAGES. ABBOT, Rt. Hon. C. address to the Algiers, particulars respecting, 74. the Algerine Cruizers, and Captives, 148. America, intelligence, 75, 172, 268, 361, 453, 551. demand on Neapolitan go- Asia, intelligence from, 74, 171, 268, 362, Asselin, M. on his translation of the Athens, Modern, mode of teaching in, 10. Babel, Tower of, observations on, 28. temp. Q. Anne, 213, 317, 395, 509. 201. GENT. MAC, Suppl. LXXXVI. PART II, Bath, Master of Ceremonies, 619: Beaufort, Cardinal, monument of, 596. 142. Bedfordshire, Compendium of its history, 313. Beer, Molasses recommended for, 588. Berkeley, Sir T. tomb of, 312. Bewick, Mr. reviver of wood-engraving, Bible, translated into the Amharic, 119. Boulogne, described, 115, Column at, ib. Boyer, General, anecdote of, 336. Boyle, F. Visc. Shanon, book by, 386. Brecon, meeting of Clergy, 128, 309. Bristol, inflammatory paper at, 457. Browne, Browne, Sir W. particulars of, 48, 344. Buckler, Mr. jun. Etchings of Cathe- Buonaparte, prophecy of Gog applied to, Burns, proposed monument to, 620. Calamy Edmund, and ancestors, 90, 296. 345. Cambridgeshire, Compendium of its bis- Canal Shares, prices of, 96, 192, 288, Canter, Classicks edited by, 419, 496. of, 143. on a late repair at, 135. Cathedrals, illustration of, 37. Catholic Emancipation, motion on, 68. Catinat, Marechal de, conduct, &c. of, 485. Chalmers, Mr. A. Biog. Dictionary, 296. &c. 264. Chambers of Peers and Deputies, &c. opened, 450. proceedings of, 548. Charles II. his escape after the battle of Charter House, anniversary, 560. Choirs, meeting of at Hereford, 363. Christ's Visible Church defined, 391. Climbing-Boys, necessity of superseding, Clinton,Sir H.Commonsvote thanks to,67. Coins of British Sovereigns, 322. cau- Cole, Sir L. Commons vote thanks to, 67. Collins's Peerage, by Brydges, 12. Conspiracies, Bow-street patrole, &c. 79, Constitution of England, remarks, 102. 1 County History, Compendium of, 313, Curtis, Sir Roger, account of, 478, 635. Dallas, Judge, Charge to Grand Jury, 326. |